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Sivetrys's adventuring party meets the blue girls
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She nods sympathetically, and -

Wait, what? She's a noble?

 Her eyes widen, train of thought derailed. 

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Sivetrys spots this.

"Oh, don't worry, neither of us are proper nobility. We're River Kingdom nobility, which is half puffed up bravado and the other half a warlord in a funny hat. I keep running tabs on what absurd things people come up with when trying to address me, it's surprisingly entertaining."

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Luto visibly takes a half-second to process this, but once she finishes, her face settles at 'surprised amusement'.

"Incredible. What are some of the highlights?" 

(...the problem with asking herself what would Zan do is that Zan is much funnier than she is, but Luto can at least keep track of things she'll want to know, once she's back.)

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"'Your spellificence,' 'Lady of Over There,' 'Sorta-queen of the Shrikingdom' - the spot I bravado over is based in the Shrike Hills, it's a truly terrible pun - 'Leopard bitch,' 'bastard bitch of Brevoy' - there's a lot of bitch based naming for me, can't imagine why - uhhhh... I got called a discount druid once, that was pretty funny."

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Luto giggles, and does a cute little curtsy. "Truly, their impudence is matched only by your patience," and keeping a straight face is hard but it's important for the delivery no matter what Ridaya thinks so she's going to "...your spellificence." 

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This earns a laugh out of Her Spellificence.

"Thank you for your courtesy, but as we are not currently in my court of 'Over There,' I'll pass on the titles. I mostly just want people to stop robbing each other on the road."

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She nods soberly. Bandits weren't much of a problem in Tianjing, but she's long since learned that her homeland is the exception, not the rule.

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Yeah. Though some people are trying to fix that.

There are more bodies in what Sivetrys is internally calling the corpse pantry, but none of them are from people any of them recognize. They don't really have any more bag room for more bodies, so they will be carefully left in storage for possible retrieval later, for either resurrection or burial, depending on resources available.

No diamonds are present that they can easily find. If Vordakai has a storage of them, they're not here, and venturing further into the lair for his stuff is more risk than any of them want to take while they're all down any divine healing that can fix mistakes.

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Luto ducks a side-room and finds Zan's Greatsword (she and Ridaya have been calling it My Pretty Face lately) and Vakt's shield. She solemnly puts them both into their shared bag of holding, which Zan is currently carrying around for them. 

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They finish packing up all of the loot. Squeezing everyone into two teleports is going to require one scroll of Reduce Animal to fit Okbo into the second, but they can in fact manage it with Sivetrys's expanded teleport capacity. Ekundayo gets the bag of demilich pieces, and is going to be in charge of making Vordakai be dead. This is a straightforward social task that will involve him talking primarily to members of his own faith, the sort of thing she doesn't feel bad delegating to him.

"Do you particularly want to be there when we have his remains finished off permanently?" asks Sivetrys, after handing off the bag to him.

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Headshake. "I'm going to stay with Zan." 

She glances at Uma. It's the kind of thing she'd normally want to do, but...

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Well, she hasn't looked up from her book, so she's probably not interested.

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She looks back at Sivetrys and shakes her head. 

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"Okay. Then I'm going to teleport you in on the second group, and... hm, probably it'll make diamond sourcing easier if I'm in my teleport sorcerer identity, she actually knows people in Highhelm, whereas I as myself have never officially been before..."

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"Are you overcomplicating things again."

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"... More like my previous complications are catching up to me a little, and I don't want to uncomplicate them..."

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"So, yes. You weirdo."

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Huh. "...Multiple identities?" 

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"So as a sorceress, I get a lot of teleports compared to wizards? But I also don't want to make a habit of having it known when I am using all of my spells for teleports." She works in the River Kingdoms, and being predictable like that is how she gets assassinated. She does not want to be assassinated. "And sometimes I want to help Good causes without it being traced back to me, since one of my neighbor's exports is assassins. Plus it's kind of convenient for appearing to undercut myself to give myself a veneer of legitimacy in Brevoy and the River Kingdoms. So! I am also an elf, named Jivandria."

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As wizard eccentricities go, it's downright pragmatic. Good for subterfuge.

It's still somewhat silly, though.

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One of her neighbors exports assassins? Wild.

...She giggles at 'I am also an elf, named Jivardia', though; the delivery is really good. "Ah, Zan is going to love hearing about that..."

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Actually, it could be argued that multiple neighbors export assassins; she's pretty sure Natala Surtova is in the 'sending assassins' business, and she seems like the type that would only trust her own, instead of hiring out.

Sivetrys grins. "I'm glad! I warn you, though, Jivandria is much less of a conversationalist than I am! Long history, dark past, seen the death of Aroden, all that."

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"Yes, yes, your other self is very thoroughly crafted, if being baroness ever falls through, you could always become a novelist. Can we get to teleporting sooner rather than later?"

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Eyeroll. "Yeah, if you're all ready. Please ensmallen your wolf, Ekundayo."

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Reduce Animal. (He'll need to scribe a new scroll for it in his downtime. These are too rare and niche to easily purchase.)

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